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Council balks at proposed charter amendments Santa Fe city councilors have less than a month to decide whether or not to pursue ballot questions to amend the city charter in the next election. During a special meeting yesterday, councilors expressed concern that the six recommendations made by the 2023 Charter Commission aren’t ready for the ballot. As SFR reported earlier this […]
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US state Arkansas bans ‘Latinx’ from govt documents: Why is the term contentious?
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the newly-elected Republican Governor of the US state of Arkansas and the one-time Press Secretary of former US President Donald Trump, got to work immediately, passing seven executive orders on her very first day in office. One of these orders banned the word “Latinx” from government documents, citing “the government’s responsibility to […]
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